Around the country, Walmart workers, with encouragement from unions, are protesting their take-home pay and staffing issues. The pay leaves many workers qualifying for food stamps, and staffing issues leave them overworked and harm customer service, the workers say.

When they arrived, they were immediately met by store management.

"I'm going to have to ask you to leave or I will have to have the officers help," said store manager David Linch.

Managers, with help from Orlando police, encouraged the protesters to move to the sidewalk outside the parking lot, which they peacefully did.

On Thursday night, representative-elect Alan Grayson escorted a worker from the Walmart on John Young Parkway because she felt she should not be working on Thanksgiving.

"I'm a single mom, and the pay, I can't afford to live on the pay they pay us," said Lisa Lopez.

"I think the minimum wage should be $10 an hour, and when you look at how these people are struggling, these workers should be able to make a decent living wage," said Grayson.

Linch, the manager of the store on Goldenrod Road, declined to say much. He did tell WESH 2 that he didn’t recognize any of the protestors as employees of his store.

Later in the day, protestors went inside of a Walmart on Princeton Street, sending security scrambling to escort them out.